For those of you who have not yet heard, we were saddened to learn that Bonnie Yates, the wife of Art Yates, has passed away. Art is a long-time, active...
Sunday, May 20, 2012, 10 a.m. California Jewish Cemeteries - Robinn Magid Bay Area genealogist Robinn Magid will present a survey of California's many Jewish...
Friday night's "Who Do You Think You Are?" is a repeat of the Reba McIntire program. Sunday, 8 p.m,, PBS, KVIE Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ...
Friday, 8 p.m, NBC. --Who Do You Think You Are? -- Lionel Richie Sunday, 8 p.m. PBS -- Finding Your Roots -- Pastor Rick Warren, Korean-American Rabbi Angela...
For some reason the "Find Your Roots" program did not run locally on KVIE last night, but I did see it on KQED at the scheduled time. Interesting program,...
TV Sunday night, April 8: PBS, 8 p.m. -- Henry Louis Gates, "Finding Your Roots" Features Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick. Kyra's mother is Jewish,...
Sunday, March 18, 2012 10 a.m. "Superstitions and Other Irrational Beliefs Guiding our German Ancestors' Lives" Making family history come alive means going...
This Sunday, December 16, 10 a.m. -- Aaron Kornblum will speak to us about the Western Jewish History Center at the Judah Magnes Museum in Berkeley. Aaron, a...
"Getting Ready for the 1940 Census -- Searching Without a Name Index" Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento Sunday, February 19, 2012, 10 a.m. When the...
Season 3 begins with research into Martin Sheen's background, 8 p.m, Channel 3. And thanks to you eagle-eyed members for spotting an error on the date for the...
Season 3 of "Who Do You Think You Are?" (NBC/Channel 3) Episode 1 -- this Friday, February 3, 8 p.m. You'll want to tune in -- Martin Sheen learns how...
Updated information ... Marvin Freedman will be buried in Los Angeles, with a memorial service to be held at Congregation Beth Shalom of Carmichael on Friday,...
Sue Miller tells us that longtime JGSS member Marvin Freedman passed away Saturday. Arrangements are still pending; he will be buried in Los Angeles next to...
"Using Facebook and Twitter in Genealogy" -- Lorenzo Cuesta Sunday, January 15, 2012, 10 a.m. ... January speaker Lorenzo Cuesta tells us that as genealogist...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento "Using Facebook and Twitter in Genealogy" Sunday, January 15, 2012, 10 a.m. Lorenzo Cuevas will be the January 2012...
Upcoming Meeting: Next Sunday, December 18, 10 a.m. -- Genealogy Jeopardy Mark Heckman once again becomes Alex Trebek to test contestants' knowledge of Jewish...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento "Surname Study or One-Name Study?" Sunday, November 20, 2011, 10 a.m. Researching your family tree can be complicated...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento www.jgss.org Upcoming 2011 Meetings: Sunday, November 20, 10 a.m. -- Jim Rader, Surname or One-Name Study Sunday,...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento www.jgss.org October 4, 2009 Upcoming Meetings: Sunday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m., Roy Ogus: The South African Jewish...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento www.jgss.org October 9, 2011 Our next meeting -- next Sunday: Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento Sunday,...
Bob Wascou passes on the url for info on the October 1st Archives crawl mentioned at last night's meeting: http://sacarchivescrawl.blogspot.com/ October 1,...
Due to illness by scheduled speaker Lynn Brown, our president, Victoria Fisch, will fill in and speak on "Searching Secrets to Ancestry" at Monday evening's...
Our upcoming meeting: "Immigration and Citizenship" -- Lynn Brown Monday, September 19, 7 p.m. Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright Street. Lynn Brown...
Coming up, a week from Monday: "Immigration and Citizenship" -- Lynn Brown Monday, September 19, 2011, 7 p.m. Lynn Brown will follow up on her January...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento www.jgss.org August 24, 2011 President Victoria Fisch called the meeting to order. She noted that members Mort...
Judy Persin passes this on about Alice Polakoff, an active JGSS board member in the group's early years who attended several IJGS conferences. ... From: Mosaic...
